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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] Donato GiannottiDella repubblica fiorentinaPrint: Book
1850-1899'began Pulci'.George Eliot [pseud.] [probably] Luigi Pulci[if this Pulci, poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'Began reading a Tour in Denmarkby Von Buch translated by Black with geological and mineralogical notes by Professor Jamieson [comments on contents]'Benjamin Newton [Von Buch][a tour in Denmark]Print: Book
1900-1945'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through Chambers's "Twentieth Cent. Dictionary" seems to be w...William Soutar [n/a]Encyclopaedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through Chambers's "Twentieth Cent. Dictionary" seems to be w...William Soutar ChambersTwentieth Century DictionaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Revision of Problem II. Revised Introduction. Finished 2nd reading of Psychological Principles'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[various works Eliot was revising]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Schrader's German Mythology'George Eliot [pseud] Eberhard Schrader[German Mythology]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'George Eliot [pseud] Adolf StahrTorso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der AltenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.George Eliot [pseud] Torquato TassounknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."'George Eliot [pseud] Sophocles AjaxPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace'George Eliot [pseud] Harriet MartineauHistory of the Peace: Being a History of England f...Print: Book
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] SophoclesAntigonePrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] P. von BohlenGenesisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] Emanuel SwedenborgunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the Italianische Reise.'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheItalianische ReisePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi[History of Florence]Print: Book
1700-1799'Began to copy out of Lodge's "Illustrations", the lives of the 4th, 5th, 6th, & 7th Earls of Shrewsbury; the book contains chiefly letters to and from the 4 great charac...Joseph Hunter Edmund LodgeIllustrations of British HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began to draw out of Lodge, the monument of George 4th Earl of Shrewsbury.'Joseph Hunter Edmund LodgeIllustrations of British HistoryPrint: Book


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